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                <p>You can use the Build dashboard to obtain an overview of the development activities
                    that are affecting the quality of the builds. Nightly builds are important to software
                    development projects. When builds are not completing successfully or are not passing
                    build verification tests (BVT), the team must fix the problem immediately.</p>
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                                <p>You access dashboards through your team project portal. You can access the Build
                                    dashboard only if that portal has been enabled and is provisioned to use Microsoft
                                    Office SharePoint Server 2007. For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="DashboardsGovDev.html">
                                        Dashboards (GovDev)</a></span>  or <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/644ee4b7-3653-4943-9809-3d14d4d79c48">
                                            Access a Team Project Portal and Process Guidance</a></span>.</p>
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                                <p><span class="label">In this topic</span> </p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Data">Data Displayed in the Dashboard</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Activities">Required Activities for Tracking Builds</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Using">Monitoring Builds</a></p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="#Customizing">Customizing the Quality Dashboard</a></p>
                                    </li>
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                                <p><span class="label">You can use this dashboard to answer the following questions</span> 
                                    :</p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>How volatile is the code base?</p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>How much of the code is the team testing?</p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>How high is the quality of the builds? </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>Is the quality increasing, decreasing, or staying constant? </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>Which builds succeeded? </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>Which builds have a significant number of changes to the code? </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
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                <p><span class="label">Required Permissions</span> </p>
                <p>To view the dashboard, you must be assigned or belong to a group that has been assigned
                    the <span class="ui">Read</span> permissions in SharePoint Products for the team
                    project. To modify, copy, or customize a dashboard, you must be assigned or belong
                    to a group that has been assigned the <span class="ui">Members</span> permissions
                    in SharePoint Products for the team project. For more information, see <span sdata="link">
                        <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/3cfefdd2-b161-4e04-8dc0-e2deeac50262">Add
                            Users to Team Projects</a></span>.</p>
                <p>To modify an Excel report, you must be a member of the <span class="ui">TfsWarehouseDataReaders
                    </span> security role in SQL Server Analysis Services, and you must be assigned or
                    belong to a group that has been assigned the <span class="ui">Members</span> permissions
                    in SharePoint Products for the team project. For more information, see <span sdata="link">
                        <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/c7488754-77af-4fb4-8eca-1af0d206c9c8">Grant
                            Access to the Databases of the Data Warehouse for Visual Studio ALM</a></span>.</p>
                <p>To view a work item, you must be a member of the <span class="ui">Readers</span> group
                    or your <span class="ui">View work items in this node</span> must be set to <span
                        class="ui">Allow</span>. To create or modify a work item, you must be a member
                    of the <span class="ui">Contributors</span> group or your <span class="ui">Edit work
                        items in this node</span> permissions must be set to <span class="ui">Allow</span>.  
                    For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/8f1f5f39-ed0f-4539-bee1-7e7e77bb5728">
                        Managing Permissions</a></span>.</p>
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                Displayed in the Dashboard</span> </h1>
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                <p>The team can use the Build dashboard to monitor the quality of builds and determine
                    whether a member of the team must take specific steps to correct build failures.
                    This dashboard displays the Web parts that the illustration shows and the table
                    describes. </p>
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                                <p>Code coverage and churn charts, reports
                                    <img alt="Step 1" src="../art/ProcGuid_1.gif" />
                                    and
                                    <img alt="Step 2" src="../art/ProcGuid_2.gif" />, do not appear when the data warehouse
                                    for the team project is not available.</p>
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                                <p>Web part</p>
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                                <p>Data displayed</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Related topic</p>
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                            <td>
                                <img alt="Step 1" src="../art/ProcGuid_1.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>Line chart that depicts the percentage of code that was tested by build verification
                                    tests (BVT) and other tests over the most recent four weeks. </p>
                                <img alt="Code Coverage Report" src="../art/ProcGuid_CodeCoverage.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="CodeCoverageExcelReport.html">Code Coverage Excel Report
                                    </a></span> </p>
                            </td>
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                                <img alt="Step 2" src="../art/ProcGuid_2.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>Stacked area chart that depicts how many lines of code the team added, removed, and
                                    changed in the checkins before the build within the most recent four weeks.
                                </p>
                                <img alt="Code Churn Report" src="../art/ProcGuid_CodeChurn.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="CodeChurnExcelReport.html">
                                    Code Churn Excel Report</a></span> </p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
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                                <img alt="Step 3" src="../art/ProcGuid_3.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>List of recent builds and their build status. You can view more details by clicking
                                    a specific build. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.</p>
                                <img alt="Recent Builds Web part" src="../art/TWSA_DashBuilds.png" /><p><span class="label">
                                    Legend</span>:</p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build in Progress" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_1.gif" />: Build in Progress
                                </p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build Not Started" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_2.gif" />: Build Not Started
                                </p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build Succeeded" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_3.gif" />: Build Succeeded
                                </p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build Failed" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_4.gif" />: Build Failed
                                </p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build Stopped" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_5.gif" />: Build Stopped
                                </p>
                                <p>
                                    <img alt="Build Partially Succeeded" src="../art/Icon_BuildStatus_6.gif" />: Build
                                    Partially Succeeded</p>
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                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/5c0de804-7ff9-468b-9053-fd068ea1a2bc">
                                    Managing and Viewing Completed Builds</a></span> </p>
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                                <img alt="Step 4" src="../art/ProcGuid_4.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>List of upcoming events derived from a SharePoint Web part.</p>
                                <img alt="Import Events Web part" src="../art/SharePoint_Dashboard.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>Not applicable</p>
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                                <img alt="Step 5" src="../art/ProcGuid_6.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>Count of active, resolved, and closed work items. You can open the list of work items
                                    by clicking each number. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.</p>
                                <img alt="Project Work Items Web part" 
                                    src="../art/TWSA_DashProjectWI.png" />
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="WorkItemsandWorkflowGovDev.html">Work Items and 
                                    Workflow (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
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                                <img alt="Step 6" src="../art/ProcGuid_6a.gif" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p>List of the most recent check-ins. You can view more details by clicking a specific
                                    checkin. This list is derived from a Team Web Access Web part.</p>
                                <img alt="Recent Checkins Web part" src="../art/TWSA_DashCheckins.png" /></td>
                            <td>
                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dded21d3-4869-4e19-bca4-62e27179539c">
                                    Using the Check In and Pending Changes Windows</a></span> </p>
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                Activities for Tracking Builds</span> </h1>
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                <p>For the reports shown in the Build Dashboard to be useful and accurate, the team
                    must perform the following activities: </p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p><span class="label">Configure a build system</span>. To use Team Foundation Build,
                            you must set up a build system. </p>
                        <p>For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e5a1f360-7c62-44fc-8823-c6ebcd62bc20">
                            Configure Your Build System</a></span>.</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p><span class="label">Create build definitions</span>. You can create several build
                            definitions and then run each of them to produce code for a different platform.
                            Also, you can run each build for a different configuration.</p>
                        <p>For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/61593e10-d24b-492f-b19a-af4d85abea6b">
                            Creating and Working with Build Definitions</a></span>.</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p><span class="label">Define tests to run automatically as part of the build</span>.  
                            As part of the build definition, you can define tests to run as part of the build
                            or to fail if the tests fail.</p>
                        <p>For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/43930b12-c21b-4599-a980-2995e3d16e31">
                            Define a Build Using the Default Template</a></span>.</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p><span class="label">Configure tests to gather code coverage data</span>. For code
                            coverage data to appear in the report, team members must instrument tests to gather
                            that data.</p>
                        <p>For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/8dcf94f8-8b85-41ba-a5a2-d12aa5d2da85">
                            How to: Configure Code Coverage Using Test Settings for Automated Tests</a></span>.</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p><span class="label">Run builds regularly</span>. You can run builds at regular intervals
                            or after every check-in. You can create regular builds when you use the schedule
                            trigger.</p>
                        <p>For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/1c2eca2d-9a65-477e-9b23-0678ff7882ee">
                            Create a Basic Build Definition</a></span> and <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/5b8d6647-938a-4f7b-a72b-0f1921af849f">
                                Running and Monitoring Builds</a></span>.</p>
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                                        <p>Although a team member can manually rate a build by using Build Explorer, this rating
                                            is not reflected in the Build Quality Indicators report. The build rating appears
                                            in the Build Summary report. For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/fa9e34bb-8142-46e3-8bea-c4909a10e2bf">
                                                Rate the Quality of a Completed Build</a></span> and <span sdata="link"><a href="BuildSummaryReport.html">
                                                    Build Summary Report</a></span>.</p>
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                <p>The team can use the Build dashboard to monitor the quality of builds and the level
                    of code coverage that they are testing. Ideally, code coverage is high, and code
                    churn is low or falling. Depending on your team goals, code coverage should be 80%
                    to 100%. </p>
                <p>You can use the Code Coverage and Code Churn reports to answer the questions that
                    are listed in the following table. </p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p>Which builds succeeded? </p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Which builds have a significant number of changes to the code? </p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>How often are builds succeeding?</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>How volatile is the code base?</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>How much of the code is the team testing?</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>How high is the quality of the builds? </p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>Is the quality increasing, decreasing, or staying constant? </p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>For more information, see <span sdata="link"><a href="CodeCoverageExcelReport.html">
                    Code Coverage Excel Report</a></span> and <span sdata="link"><a href="CodeChurnExcelReport.html">
                        Code Churn Excel Report</a></span>.</p>
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                <p>You can customize the Build dashboard in the following ways:</p>
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                        <p>Change the filters of each report in Office Excel to focus on specific product areas
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                        <p>Add existing Excel reports such as <span class="ui">Builds Status</span> or<span
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                <p>For more information about how to work with and customize Excel reports, see the
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                        <p><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165722">Ways to customize PivotTable
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                        <p><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165723">Edit or remove a workbook
                            from Excel Services</a></p>
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                        <p><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165724">Publish a workbook to Excel
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                        <p><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165725">Save a file to a SharePoint
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